On 26 Mar 2019 at 14:32, David Cantrell David Cantrell <da...@cantrell.org.uk> wrote:
> Also note > that while the government made the BBC fund the World Service recently, > it has historically not been funded from the licence fee. Now that it > *is* funded by the licence fee we should welcome adverts on it as a way > of offsetting that effective reduction in the funding available to the > BBC. +1 it used to funded by Foreign & Commonwealth Office and less agenda biassed. Now it's often an extended "Womens Hour" "Global Warming" advertorial. _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer